University of Ilocos Philippines - Candon Campus

The institution's legal identity has changed. Ilocos Sur Polytechnic College was created by Republic Act No. 7960 in March 1995 and converted into Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College by Republic Act No. 8547, signed by President Fidel V. Ramos on 24 February 1998. Republic Act No. 11755, approved on 27 April 2022, then converted the state college into a state university and integrated the North Luzon Philippines State College with it, creating the University of Ilocos Philippines with its main campus at Candon City. Records and signage may still carry the older name during the transition. Candon City is where that reorganisation lands. Republic Act No. 11755 places the main campus of the new university in Candon, and provides that the North Luzon Philippines State College, itself located in Candon, integrates as the main campus on the Act's effectivity. Candon is the commercial centre of southern Ilocos Sur and sits on the national highway between Vigan and San Fernando, which is part of why it was chosen as the seat of the enlarged institution.